In conjunction with the release of Primavera P6 15.1, Oracle has also released Primavera Analytics 15.1. There are three new dashboards: the Businesses Process Dashboard, the Cost Sheet Dashboard and the Cash Flow Dashboard. Here are more details htt...
Hi,I am new to Microsoft Project, but has much experience with Safran Project. Is it possible to get MS Project automatically set free float of a activity as the activity's duration? Ex. on follow-on activities.I also miss the "planned progress" colo...
Dear Friend,I am operating in India Leading a Planning Team in Contractor's side for a High rise Residential Project.The contract is in Item Rate Basis. Presently we are at verge of Completion @ 94% with respect to overall Project Scope.Presently we ...
I need to use my Primavera P6 8.3.2 in a conference room setting with it projected on a screen. My eye are pretty bad so I adjusted the font size to something I can see. Then I relized that the font size was only changed fror the activity list, no...
I just posted a new blog article: “The Value Breakdown Structure (VBS): What, How and Why?” You can find it here.In my last few articles about aligning the benefits and value of programs with projects, I mentioned the VBS as a tool for ensuring such ...
Here we take a first look at the new Primavera P6 Professional 15.1 release http://ow.ly/La8ah
Dear all,Few years ago I posted here an articles on brief comparison of resource levelling engines of different tools:In addition to this I started an initiative to develop requirements to conduct more scientific resource levelling engine comparison...
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Learn how to do top-down scheduling In Microsoft Project with this simple guide http://ow.ly/LeYpY
I just posted a new blog article: “What is the True Cost of an Activity’s Work? Is It Worth It?” You can find it here. In my most recent articles, I discussed the value breakdown structure) VBS as a tool for estimating the value of projects within a ...
Dear all, Could any one help me how to change activities Calendar from Old Caledar to new Calendar without effect to Original Duration and Lag duration. I have followed below instruction but still cannot keep the Original Duration and Lag Duration as...
Here's how to assign Notepad Labels to Primavera P6 Gantt Chart Bars http://ow.ly/LlZK1
Dear Asta users,I don’t know whether you noticed, but I started an initiative to compare automatics resource levelling of different tools.http://www.planningplanet.com/forums/planning-scheduling-programming-discussion/574396/comparison-resource-level...
There seems to be general agreement among the project/program community that projects are not focused as they should be on generating the desired business benefits. There are specific new techniques, extensively explored in my two books Managing Proj...
Hi If a contractor decided himself to pace non affected work with ongong affected works, whether he would be eligible for prolongation costs? Or his delay in non affected areas woul be treated as concurrent delays that will not entitle him any prolon...
Hi everybody,Maybe a good question to start with in this forum:What are the characteristics specific for Turnaroundprojects ? (what is fundamentally different compared to a "normal" construction project for example)Which things do you encounter which...
The weekend is here and several people have let me know that they liked the Weekend Puzzler feature on my blog . So here it is again: this time a multiple choice quiz, with answers and explanations below. This exercise is about computing the expected...
Dear all,I just noticd, that the way Spider calculates the duration of a phase is a bit strange for me, or at least this is not what I am used at MSP. 1) Is there a way to show phase duration as the [date of latest activity] - [date of earliest acti...
In the tender, if the client allows certain money amount as provisional sum such as $10,000,000. for soft landscaping. In this case, how should the main contractor make allowance of time in his programme for the soft landscaping work.I usually put a ...
Hi PlannersI am updating a project schedule with resources and after updating I found that the remaining units/time for completed activity is still fixed 8h/d. Is this right? even though the remaining units for that activity is zero.Best,Moutaz